The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has approved an extension of its student loan programme for institutions that have formally requested additional time for the 2025/2026 academic session. The Fund’s Director of Strategic Communications, Mrs Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, announced this in a statement on Thursday. Oluwatuyi said the extension applies strictly …
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A non-profit organisation, Tope Dare Foundation, has donated a multi-million naira ultra modern 100-bed hostel facility, to the St. Peter’s Unity Secondary School, Akure, the Ondo State capital. Also, friends of the foundation also donated writing materials such as exercise books and pen to the 1,100 pupils of the school …
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The N3.92tn spent as subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, from January 2020 to June 2022 is higher than the cumulative individual federal budgets for health, education and defence during the 30-month period. Findings show that over the last 30 months, Nigeria has spent more on fuel subsidy …
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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour …
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By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is now leading the long awaited quest to find the soul of the North. He is willing to risk the throne to get there. But will he succeed? Will the factors that stopped reformers before him stop him? For …
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The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho appears set to resume in January as the owner states of the university consider the report of a panel they set up on the crisis that has kept students away since June. Multiple sources, however, told PREMIUM TIMES that a key recommendation …
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The Kwara Government on Friday said it had closed down 10 private schools built with wooden slabs and operating without due authorisation from the state government. Hajia Zainab Bello, the Director, Quality Assurance Bureau (QAB) of the Kwara Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, told the News Agency of …
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Some students of Baptist High School, Adeeke,Iwo caused a stir among their colleagues as they appeared in the school in choir robes and other church garments. Our correspondent, who visited the school observed that the students came late to the school around 8:35 on Tuesday and headed to their various classes as their …
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Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government’s social intervention programme was not a welfare scheme that gives handouts to the poor but the largest single dedicated provision for social investment in the country. He said this in his address at the launch of the Strategy Framework/Source Book …
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Following the recent spate of unrest in some tertiary institutions in the country, such as the University of Port-Harcourt, UNIPORT, University of Lagos, UNILAG, Benue State University among others, the office of the Special Assistant to President on Youths and Students’ Affairs (OSAPYS), has reached out to major stakeholders towards …
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